Democracy Quotes
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.
I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.
On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.
Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.
There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.
It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.
I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.
In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.
On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.
We expect Germany to push more strongly for democracy and human rights in Turkey.
It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.
Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy.
... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west and democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.
Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.
We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.
To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.
Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.
Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.
Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.
In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.
Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.
I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.